Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 03:59:39 -0500
From: Darrell Todd Maurina
Organization: Christian Renewal/United Reformed News Service
Subject: NR 99016: WestminsterAcademic Dean Joins URC
NR #1999-016: Westminster Academic Dean Joins United Reformed Churches
Presuming a satisfactory examination, the United Reformed
Churches will have another seminary professor among its membership: Dr.
R. Scott Clark, academic dean of Westminster Theological Seminary in
California. Clark, whose ministerial credentials are currently in the
Reformed Church in the United States, has already joined Escondido URC.
Clark pastored an RCUS congregation in Kansas City from 1987 to 1993,
did his doctoral study at Oxford University from 1993 to 1995, and
taught at Wheaton College from 1995 until accepting his current position
at Westminster in July, 1997. "I'm very enthusiastic about the URC; this
is a group that is confessionally committed, doctrinally sound, and
warmly evangelical," said Clark. "They are orderly without being
obsessive, and I appreciate that."
NR #1999-016: For Immediate Release:
Westminster Academic Dean Joins United Reformed Churches
by Darrell Todd Maurina, Press Officer
United Reformed News Service
(February 11, 1999) URNS - Presuming a satisfactory examination, the
United Reformed Churches will have another seminary professor among its
membership: Dr. R. Scott Clark, academic dean of Westminster Theological
Seminary in California.
Clark, whose ministerial credentials are currently in the
Reformed Church in the United States, has already joined Escondido URC.
Clark pastored an RCUS congregation in Kansas City from 1987 to 1993,
did his doctoral study at Oxford University from 1993 to 1995, and
taught at Wheaton College from 1995 until accepting his current position
at Westminster in July, 1997.
While southern California has a number of congregations of the
Orthodox Presbyterian Church and Presbyterian Church in America, there
is no local congregation of Clark's denomination.
"I don't have any theological or dogmatic reasons for leaving
the RCUS; I had two sets of reasons for wanting to join the URC," said
Clark. "Here I am in Escondido, I'm two hours away from the nearest
RCUS. I am a Three Forms of Unity man, here I am worshipping in a Three
Forms church, and I put my local membership in the Escondido church
already. Now that I'm back in the United States, personally I didn't
think there was any reason to keep my membership in the [RCUS] South
Central Classis and personal membership in the Kansas City RCUS."
"I'm very enthusiastic about the URC; this is a group that is
confessionally committed, doctrinally sound, and warmly evangelical,"
said Clark. "They are orderly without being obsessive, and I appreciate
that."
If Clark sustains his colloquium doctum examination on March 9,
he will be the seventh current or emeritus seminary professor on the
ministerial roll of the United Reformed Churches. In addition to Clark,
United Reformed seminary faculty include the president, Dr. W. Robert
Godfrey, emeritus professor Dr. Derke Bergsma, and current professor Dr.
Michael Scott Horton. United Reformed professors at Mid-America Reformed
Seminary are Dr. Nelson Kloosterman and Prof. Mark Vander Hart, as well
as emeritus professor Dr. P.Y. DeJong.
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Contact List:
Rev. Andrew Cammenga, Pastor, Escondido Christian Reformed Church
1850 N. Broadway, Escondido, CA 92026
H/O/FAX: (760) 745-2324 * E-mail: ACAMMENGA@aol.com
Dr. R. Scott Clark, Academic Dean, Westminster Theological Seminary
1725 Bear Valley Parkway, Escondido, CA 92027
O: (760) 480-8474 * FAX: (760) 480-0252
Dr. W. Robert Godfrey, President, Westminster Theological Seminary
1725 Bear Valley Parkway, Escondido, CA 92027
O: (760) 480-8474 * H: (760) 741-1635 * FAX: (760) 480-0252
Rev. Bradd Nymeyer, Stated Clerk, Classis Southwest United States (URC)
2418 North 127th Ln, Avondale, AZ 85323-6575
Study: (602) 935-2200 * E-mail: BLNymeyer@aol.com
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